When Energy Becomes Form (English edition)

The Art of Oil in the works of BP group for the Black Gold Museum's inaugural exhibition >Founded in the early 1980s, BP is a French artist collective formed by Renaud Layrac, Frédéric Pohl, and Richard Bellon. The group emerged spontaneously after discovering British Petroleum stickers, which they adopted as their signature. Since then, BP has focused exclusively on the petroleum world, creating installations using industrial objects such as barrels, gas pumps, and automotive materials. Their work explores themes of appropriation, reuse, and environmental critique, often incorporating used oil as a medium. BP's distinctive practice challenges the aesthetics and ethics of fossil fuel culture through subversive, site-specific interventions rooted in material transformation.